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The woman who accepted responsibility for particular household tasks at 35 may be a director, partner, founder or CEO at 50. Children who once needed practical care may now be adults requiring different forms of support. Parents who were previously independent may need increasing assistance, businesses may have expanded and relationships may have changed, yet the original distribution of responsibility can remain remarkably resistant to renegotiation.

For women in leadership and particularly Black women, burnout is becoming one of the greatest hidden threats to career progression, organisational innovation and long-term economic participation. As artificial intelligence reshapes workplaces and organisations pursue greater efficiency, conversations about productivity are accelerating. Far fewer discussions focus on who is carrying the human cost of that transformation.